ObamaCare

It’s just one of those days. Israel invades Gaza. After ten days of on-and-off ceasefires and peace talks, the Israelis decided that a blunt force trauma to the Hamas terrorist infrastructure would be the best move to secure their border. Can’t blame Israel — they even announced days ago that they were coming in order [...]

The Supreme Court handed down two big decisions today (5-4, predictably), one striking down parts of the Obamacare contraception mandate, the other allowing certain employees to opt out of union membership. The Burwell v. Hobby Lobby decision notes that since HHS has already carved out some exemptions for religious institutions to be exempt from the [...]

Vatican chief justice Cardinal Raymond Burke said the following when asked about the Obama Administration in an interview for a Christian magazine: It is true that the policies of the president of the United States have become progressively more hostile toward Christian civilization. He appears to be a totally secularized man who aggressively promotes anti-life [...]

Republican David Jolly defeated Democrat Alex Sink in a special election last night for Florida’s 13th Congressional district. The district was historically Republican, but voted twice for Obama. Jolly had a bloody primary battle, was trashed by the Establishment GOP last week, and was pitted against the Democrat machine with a candidate in Sink who [...]

In the midst of a CBO report indicating that Obamacare will be the direct cause for the loss of at least 2 million full-time jobs moving forward (that’s a low-ball number in my opinion), the spin from the left this week was outrageous! To quote Nancy Pelosi, “this was one of [Obamacare's] goals: to give [...]

I initially wanted to post on the horrible economic news from what should have been a gang-busters robust good news jobs report that we didn’t get on Friday, but this Common Core issue keeps reappearing, impacting local politics throughout the nation as well as my own classroom. To the uninitiated, Common Core is an attempt [...]

Just to review, the First Amendment to the Constitution states in its first clause: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; … That second part makes some very uncomfortable, and often is ignored in the courts. That being said, the Roman Catholic Church doesn’t approve of [...]

We know that House Speaker John Boehner has drawn a line in the sand, not against Obama and the ideological left, but on the Tea Party and the ideological right. For a start, Establishment Congressman Peter “Let’s Attack Everyone Everywhere” King just started an anti-Tea Party PAC to oppose insurgents in the primaries. Well, Boehner [...]

It was all about Obama Nelson Mandela today in Johannesburg at a funeral service which saw dozens of world leaders come to pay their respects to the former President of South Africa. It was also a great chance for President Obama to jangle the keys to turn our attention away from Obamacare and his sinking [...]

The latest Harvard youth poll showed that the most hopey-changey age demographic in America is having a change of heart. The 18-29 year-old demographic observed in the survey showed only 41% approve of the President’s job performance at present — an 11-point drop since April. This could be important. The President’s demonstrable actions will not [...]

Just when you thought it was safe to get together with family for Thanksgiving dinner and some football, your smarmy left-wing cousin (probably the one who refuses to eat the “charred flesh” of the “murdered bird” on the “corporate” Thanksgiving table) may try to ruin the concord with an out-of-place defense of Obamacare. How do [...]

There is an apocryphal story from a conversation once had between George Washington and Thomas Jefferson in which GW referred to the Senate as a body whose purpose was to cool House legislation as a saucer is used to cool tea. The Senate was a slow, deliberative body to counteract the tempestuous House. From 1789 [...]

After a month of taking hits across the political universe, President Obama finally offered a possible way to fix the immediate Obamacare disaster looming at year’s end: insurance companies won’t be able drop people with coverage for a year. This is to avoid the massive penalties uninsured or formerly insured people will have to endure [...]

James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas is at it again! This group exposed the corruption with ACORN, the holes in our voter ID laws, trouble with the NJEA teacher’s union, and much more. They are truly necessary watchdogs helping to expose political corruption, speaking truth to power (as well as to the rest of us). Now, Project [...]

The UK Daily Mail ran a commentary on the UK’s health system being on the verge of real crisis. The culprit? Bureaucratic ineptitude: bad doctors get promotions; too many sick, not enough beds; massive waste, fraud, and abuse within the system; and more people are dying because of it. While any system has its problems, [...]

Some voices have argued that the real intention of Obamacare was to lay the foundation for an eventual single-payer health care system. This isn’t a secret — the left implies that very point often! However, the only way that happens is if Obamacare creates the conditions for a government takeover. That’ll mean introducing chaos into [...]

Benghazi? Wasn’t that, like, some “phony scandal” from a hundred years ago? Alas, no. The first murder of a US ambassador since 1979 doesn’t just go away, despite the MSM’s attempts to have us look the other way. Yet, first CNN and now CBS have decided to dig a little deeper into what happened that [...]

Now that the grandstanding has subsided and the Obama Administration has won their glorious roll-out of Obamacare, what is a Republican to do? With Democrats lining up to push for a delay, a coalition in the Senate may emerge with enough votes to delay the individual mandate until after the 2014 Election. That would be [...]

Many useful idiots here in the Garden State, who voted 58-41% to keep America an Obama Nation (including 60-70% of my county), probably didn’t see this coming: because of the new insurance mandates under Obamacare an estimated 800,000 New Jerseyans will have their health insurance directly threatened, dropped, or face significant changes. Even my plan [...]

There are too many Obamacare sucks stories out there to add anything new at this point, so I found this list of “10 Rules in the Establishment Republican Handbook” to be worth adding to the echo chamber. Here’s a synopsis: There is nothing ever worth fighting for except Democrat policies You must systematically destroy any [...]

Ron Fournier writing for the National Journal hits the nail on the head — Obama and crew should be “freaked out” about the unveiling of the President’s signature piece of legislation. Granted, knowing the absolute train-wreck of a disaster Obamacare’s roll out has been, Obama did speak in the Rose Garden today to (sort of) [...]

Thomas Sowell has a fantastic piece that dispels many myths regarding the government shutdown. First, he points out how, step by step, the Democrats are responsible for the shutdown, not the GOP. Most importantly, though, he dispels the myth that it is somehow invalid for the House Republicans to defund Obamacare: Whether Obamacare is good, [...]

A viral Facebook post by 26 year old Ashley Dionne pretty much says it: Obamacare has “raped my future.” With a bachelors degree she’s overqualified for many of the jobs which are available, barely works 32 hours a week (for now), her health care premiums have skyrocketed, and she has mild cerebral palsy (a pre-existing [...]

I looked up — the sky was still there. I looked down — a giant hole did not swallow me up. Life is good. Last night the federal government shutdown — let the political circus begin! Since the MSM is primarily DC/government centric, they are in a predictable frenzy. However, if your job is a [...]

Funding for Obamacare is back on the table and headed for the House. The cloture vote (essentially a vote to end debate and have a meaningful, real vote) passed 79-19. That means 25 Republicans joined hands with all the Democrats. On the real vote, the tally was 54-44 in favor of adding Obamacare funding back [...]

Twenty-one hours of Ted Cruz yesterday on the Senate floor pounding Obamacare was great! Whether or not anything good was going to come from the gesture the point was made, those who listened got a civics lesson, and those who believe in limited government appreciated a DC Republican sounding different than a Democrat for a [...]

So, the House bit the bullet and voted 230-189 for a continuing resolution (since those antiquated things called “budgets” are from a seemingly bygone era) to defund Obamacare while keeping the rest of the government open. Though Dead On Arrival in the Senate, the House did the right thing by forcing another debate. Now things [...]

House Speaker John Boehner finally bent to the pressure within his caucus to push for a vote to defund Obamacare, threatening a showdown with Senate Democrats and the President which could result in a government shutdown October 1. While I’d love a full repeal, I’ll take the GOP short-term proposal which doesn’t repeal Obamacare (yet), [...]

Obamacare’s “Independent Payment Advisory Board,” or IPAB, now has at least 22 high profile Democrats backing its repeal, which now includes Howard Dean who argues that IPAB makes the system more bureaucratic. One doesn’t need a long drawn out excuse to oppose IPAB — it sucks on its own accord. IPAB is a rationing board [...]